by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401498114
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«La Bodega» is the social novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
It is a naturalist novel set in the Andalusian countryside and in Jerez de la Frontera, where the day labourers of the wineries suffer poverty and the threat of the «Mano Negra», a revolutionary organisation. The tension between the hungry workers and the large landowners grows throughout the narrative.
Work originally published in 1905; this edition is from 1993.
For readers of Spanish fiction interested in the portrayal of the Andalusian peasantry and in class conflicts of the early 20th century.
Valencian novelist and politician, author of La Barraca, Reeds and Mud and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a major international bestseller of his day.
